Lyrics to
Daddy’s All Gone

This version of Daddy’S All Gone was released by James Taylor in 1976.

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I don’t have much to say. Thought I’d call you up anyway.
Just to try to show you the way that I feel today, oh, I miss you, baby.
I sure am on the road. I don’t need to say much more.
Just the same old well-known stranger that I was before. It seems like yesterday, now.

Daddy’s all gone, only halfway home. He’s holding on to the telephone
saying, please, don’t let the show go on.

There’s a bus every other hour, there’s even the midnight train.
But that don’t leave me the power to see your face again. It’s not that simple.
You see, there’s a room full of smiling faces, there’s a man standing by the door.
Says it’s time to change our places and get down on the floor and kill ’em, baby.

Daddy’s all gone, he’s just halfway home.
He’s holding on to the microphone singing, please, don’t make the show go on.

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About Lyrics and Daddy’S All Gone by James Taylor

The lyrics for Daddy’S All Gone are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1976 song by James Taylor. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Daddy’S All Gone have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Daddy’S All Gone - James Taylor and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Daddy’S All Gone by James Taylor in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Daddy’S All Gone" means the words set to the music of Daddy’S All Gone, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by James Taylor. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Daddy’S All Gone and the lyrics to Daddy’S All Gone are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of James Taylor who came here looking just for the lyrics to Daddy’S All Gone, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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